Nobody on Earth does a project by himself. So you have to make sure your team is intact.

As' by Stevie Wonder - it's the greatest song ever written, bro.

I always try to get to the point where I can do different things with my voice.

Momma's girls are different. They are intense.

There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.